M. Ostermeier's album Still was released this week to favorable reviews:

"A brilliantly composed album. A magnificent contemplation that both expands and remains consistent with his prior work." - Tome to the Weather Machine

"Streamlined, modern, and organic. Think Frank Lloyd Wright or Frank Gehry set to music. It is subtly bold, but equally unobtrusive with a real sense of stillness (apt given the title). The balance that is struck should appeal equally to fans of both electroacoustic ambient and modern classical music." - Stationary Travels

Permanent price reduction from $11 to $9 on on all Tench releases, including the pre-order for Porya Hatami's Shallow (release date is Feb 18th). Trying to help out with the huge jump in postage costs implemented a year ago. Everyone who pre-ordered Shallow should receive their $2 refund from PayPal today.

Incidental Music by The Green Kingdom was released today to a chorus of high praise:

"The finished recordings are only to be described as magnificent. The understated nature of this record, as noted previously, paradoxically results in an album that cannot be ignored."  Futuresequence

"One of the most relaxing albums we've heard in a while."  A Closer Listen

"The moments frozen on Incidental Music are the sleep-induced extra five minutes of sleep at the weekend, the melodic birdsong in the trees."  Fluid Radio

Marcus Fischer is interviewed by Nathan Thomas at Fluid Radio and talks about his use of chance in composition and live performance. He also discusses Collected Dust and other upcoming releases for 2012.

"Offering something new to a path well trod...a stunning collection of pieces exploring the intricacies of found sounds and electronics and the beauty of the piano in its natural state."  Fluid Radio

"A distinctive electro-acoustic collection dotted with micro-tonal detail that largely sidesteps any one delimiting style for a more open-ended presentation."
 Textura

"Deserves a trophy for most appropriate title of the decade: 37 minutes of orchestral minimalism, it shifts and crackles like alien vegetation, but one whose home planet is so delicate that cell division is the loudest sound imaginable...The Rules of Another Small World could be your getaway record for the summer."
 Coke Machine Glow

M. Ostermeier's debut album made Exclaim's list of Improv and Avant-Garde Albums of the Year for 2010 along side Laurie Anderson's Homeland (Nonesuch) and Alva Noto & Blixa Bargeld's Mimikry (Raster-Noton).

"On his first full-length release, following two equally sublime minis early in the year, M. Ostermeier manages to quietly assemble a masterfully minimalist house of cards. While his peers in modern bedroom classical are numerous and distinguished, the Baltimore native elaborates on their current fancy for ghostly electronics married to stately acoustics with fundamental elegance. Each piece serves as hints to an eidolon; it's wisps of piano, bowed strings, remnant electrics describe the trace energies from great or sorrowful happenings as they slowly dissipate. Everything for a moment in its right place."  Eric Hill, Exclaim

"A heady, gorgeous collaboration between Tomas Phillips and Japanese composer Marihikio Hara makes for one of the best modern classical records this year." Tome to the Weather Machine

"The overall combination of abstract electronics and melodic lines that flit between immersive warmth and almost mechanical atonalism will make this familiar ground for fans of the Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto collaborations and the like....a lovely work that explores the beauty that lies within simplicity, well worth repeated listens." Fluid Radio

"The unfathomable depth of these seemingly simple pieces lends them an unexpectedly epic air. Yes, this is small, quiet and fragile music. But it is also the biggest small, loudest quiet and most incisively fragile music you'll hear for quite a while."  Tokafi

We're a little more than two weeks away from our debut release, M. Ostermeier's "Chance Reconstruction." Preorders will ship on August 16th.

Vital Weekly and Tome to the Weather Machine are the first to offer their reviews. Vital Weekly refers to it as "a sort of digital Americana" and proclaims it "an excellent quiet, spacious, atmospheric disc of music."